Posts Tagged ‘still life’
Skull Time
April 3, 2012
I’m on skull time. This morning while drawing this skull, a roadrunner came very close and I watched as it scooped up a gecko for lunch.
2012 | blog | Tags: artist, country, drawing, drawing in detail, drawing skulls, kathryn v crabbe, pencil drawing, plein air, roadrunner, rural, sketching, sketching outdoors, skulls, Southern California, still life, still life artist, still life painting
Cactus Flower
March 30, 2012
Drawing daily has become a meditation of sorts, a way to connect with the natural world and to revel in the sheer joy of process; the process of capturing a likeness. It feels almost devotional in it’s purity. But what it really does best, is inform my abstract work, Journey into Intimacy. From studying nature [...]
2012 | blog | Tags: archaic, artist as monk, cactus, cactus flower, desert, desert flower, drawing flowers, drawings, fine artist, kathryn v crabbe, monastic, monk, painting outdoors, pencil drawing, pencil sketch, plein air, Southern California, still life, Vedic scribe
Crow Spirit Medicine
March 28, 2012
With each new birth there is a small death. Spring has sprung and so I sketched a crow that died. He was tied with a wire around his legs to a fence made of sticks gathered from the chaparral surrounding us here in the inland valleys of rural Southern California. I am not responsible for [...]